Masaki Tamura

Masaki Tamura (田村正毅, Tamura Masaki^?, born 1939) is a Japanese cinematographer.

Career

Born in Aomori Prefecture, Tamura early on worked at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga), where as an assistant he helped photograph documentary films.^[1] He became a full-fledged cinematographer working on many of the documentaries of Shinsuke Ogawa. At the same time, he began photographing feature fiction films by directors such as Kazuo Kuroki, Yōichi Higashi, and Toshiya Fujita. He particularly became known for his collaborations with Mitsuo Yanagimachi. After working with many famous directors such as Jūzō Itami, Sōgo Ishii, Go Takamine, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Kaizō Hayashi, he began working in the 1990s with a new generation of directors, such as Nobuhiro Suwa, Naomi Kawase, and Makoto Sato. His collaborations with Shinji Aoyama have been notable in recent years.

Awards

In 1982, he won the Mainichi Film Award for best cinematography for the film Farewell to the Land.^[2] The same year, he won the best cinematography award at the Yokohama Film Festival for Farewell to the Land and A Japanese Village - Furuyashikimura.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (三里塚 第二砦の人々 Sanrizuka: Dainitoride no hitobito) (1971)
• Heta Village (三里塚 辺田部落 Sanrizuka: Heta buraku) (1973)
• Lady Snowblood (修羅雪姫 Shurayukihime) (1973)
• Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌 Shurayukihime - Urami Renga) (1974)
• Farewell to the Land (さらば愛しき大地 Saraba itoshiki daichi) (1982)
• A Japanese Village - Furuyashikimura (ニッポン国 古屋敷村 Nipponkoku Furuyashikimura) (1982)
• The Crazy Family (逆噴射家族 Gyakufunsha kazoku) (1984)
• Fire Festival (火まつり Himatsuri) (1985)
• Tampopo (タンポポ Tanpopo) (1985)
• Magino Village: A Tale (1000年刻みの日時計 牧野村物語 1000-nen kizami no hidokei: Maginomura monogatari) (1987)
• Evil Dead Trap (死霊の罠 Shiryō no wana) (1988)
• Untamagiru (ウンタマギルー) (1989)
• Eureka (2000)
• Desert Moon (月の砂漠 Tsuki no sabaku) (2001)
• My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (エリ・エリ・レマ・サバクタニ, Eri Eri rema sabakutani) (2005)
• Sad Vacation (サッド ヴァケイション Saddo vakeishon) (2007)

Notes

1. ^ Tamurai, Masaki; Katsu Kanai (3 October 1995). "Documentarists of Japan, No. 8: Tamura Masaki". Documentary Box 8. http://www.yidff.jp/docbox/8/box8-3-e.html. 
2. ^ "Mainichi Konkūru no ayumi: 1982-nen". Mainichi Film Awards. http://www.japan-movie.net/about/history37.html. Retrieved 3 October 2011. 
3. ^ "Dai 4-kai Yokohama Eigasai". http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/04-1982/04_1982_shou.html. Retrieved 4 October 2011. 

External links

• Masaki Tamura at the Internet Movie Database
• Tamura Masaki at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)

Persondata
Name	Tamura, Masaki
Alternative names
Short description	Cinematographer
Date of birth	1939
Place of birth	Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Date of death
Place of death